textarea > user style has no effect

The following style is not applied when used as user css

textarea:hover{color:red !important;}

textarea is completely ignored when trying to manipulate it with usercss(even dragonfly doesn't show the style)
Under 11.52 it works fine
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11.60 beta/Build: 1147/Vista

+1

I confirm that Opera has stopped applying my user CSS files properly on sites. I, too, came to notice it with textarea elements first. The issue remains in the public 11.60 release.

http://files.myopera.com/Ryszard/files/textarea.png
Why?

Why?

Note that styling of forms has always been optional in Opera ... you do have it enabled, don't you? See menu > Page > Style > Manage Modes, or Preferences > Advanced > Content > Style Options.

Originally posted by sgunhouse:

you do have it enabled, don't you?

Enabled.
Not a problem here.
CSS rules doesn't work in opera 11.60

Just want to add my weight to this one. It was working fine before and now it's not. It's especially annoying in my case because now all my textarea boxes are blue. Even this one.

Tested 11.61 build 1222 yet? Still there?

yes the bug is still there

textarea, input[type="text"], input[type="password"]{
	background:red !important;
	color:#fff !important;
	font-weight:700 !important;
}

Fixed in 11.62?

Originally posted by artmil:

yes the bug is still there

textarea, input[type="text"], input[type="password"]{
    background:red !important;
    color:#fff !important;
    font-weight:700 !important;
}

That demo works just fine even in 11.61 in Linux.

Originally posted by Zotlan:

That demo works just fine even in 11.61 in Linux.

Nope, still a problem in 11.61 and 11.62 for Linux. Are you using KDE by any chance? I don't have it installed so I can't easily check myself but I think the toolkit library you are using could make a difference. I am seeing the bug with both the GTK+2 and GTK+3 libraries.

Originally posted by Chewi:

Nope, still a problem in 11.61 and 11.62 for Linux. Are you using KDE by any chance? I don't have it installed so I can't easily check myself but I think the toolkit library you are using could make a difference. I am seeing the bug with both the GTK+2 and GTK+3 libraries.

Yes i am, on Opensuse 12.1, odd that that should make a difference.

Originally posted by Zotlan:

Yes i am, on Opensuse 12.1, odd that that should make a difference.

I don't think it's odd because the colours that are being applied are clearly based on your toolkit theme. My GTK+2 theme is blue with white text and that is exactly what colours this textarea is being rendered with. I only use one program that requires GTK+3 so I haven't bothered to apply a theme for that. In that case, Opera renders the textarea as grey with black text.

I want to take this opportunity to stress yet again that relying on toolkit themes for web page form elements is a really bad idea. While my choice of colours may look fine on the desktop, they look stupid in web pages that expect sensible black on white defaults. I have to applaud Chrome for getting this exactly right. It consistently uses my toolkit theme for the browser interface (less reliant on it in recent versions but still consistent) while simultaneously using sensible and attractive defaults for web page form elements. It really isn't too much to ask.

Fixing this bug does not entirely work around the problem. By relying on user stylesheets, you are faced with one of two issues. Using !important to force absolutely all form elements to be black on white can look equally silly on some pages. Conversely, not using !important sometimes results in unreadable form elements such as white on white or black on black where the author has specified either the text colour or the background colour but not both. Sensible defaults are really the only right way to fix this.

Spot on, Chewi.

I'll never upgrade Opera until this bug is fixed.

Bump. STILL a problem in Opera 12. Very frustrating that we don't seem to be getting any communication from Opera Software about this.

The textarea can be styled, but fron a user.css, you can only do it using "* {...}" or ".classusedbytextarea {...}" or "#id {...}"
Very frustrating if a website decides to use dark grey text on the dark grey system background.

If you happen to use * {}, you can do:
*:not(textarea) {...}
* {} /* will be applied to textarea */

/me is still testing

Just noticed this bug as well when trying to make Opera work with a dark desktop theme. I found that Opera will correctly apply the style for textarea if you select them with *[cols] This CSS rule will match any element with a "cols=N" attribute, which only exists for textarea (iirc) and which is usually present on all textarea tags. This code in user.css gives me white form fields with black text on all websites:

input, select, *[cols] {
color: #000 !important;
background-color: #fff !important;
}

@Bluubekt: This doesn't work for me. When I inspect the textarea with the dev tools, my site-specific style sheet isn't even referenced at all. (I have of course confirmed that the file name is correct and that the stylesheet file exists.) Other aspects of the user stylesheet are shown, just not the textarea rules.

Curious. It works a treat for me, even in the very box I'm typing in now. I can't believe I've spent three-four months squinting at near invisible text, resorting to a separate text editor for longer text, constantly selecting stuff in textboxes to see what they contain and trying to guess where the hell the cursor is. I must be an idiot.